The United States faces an unprecedented surge in the number of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America. Specifically, the children are fleeing El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; a region...
Here's something to brighten your Sunday - a tumblr of animals sitting on the large South American rodent the capybara. The internet needs no reason for this, it simply is. You can find it here.
Last year, naturalist Sir David Attenborough got into trouble when he called humans “a plague on the earth.” Apparently, some folks get a bit peeved when you slip ‘plague’ and ‘humans’...
Does what it says on the tin: the sensuous, lyrical poetry of Pablo Neruda, with pictures of cats. Set it in the new context of the cat memes, Neruda's poetry becomes extremely silly, even...
I’ve seen Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden” twice now, the first time at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and most recently at the...
Claudia Paz y Paz is Guatemala’s first female Attorney General - although she will not be holding the position for much longer. She is not being made to leave her position for reasons of...
On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet was voted in as President of Chile for her second term. Constitutional electoral requirements made it so that she had to leave her position following her initial...
Lifetime's incredibly soapy and evidently immensely popular drama Devious Maids has just been picked up for a second season, which is either enough to destroy your faith in Hollywood or further...
As irrefutable evidence that the globe is getting hotter mounts, eyes are starting to turn to the global agricultural system, especially with Earth’s human population at seven billion and counting....
It seems to be a recurring theme when politics and rape allegations mix: women’s bodies become the battlefield where access to justice is secondary, a mere afterthought or a nuisance. Julian...
